My Eleven Year High School Reunion

I graduated from high school in 1995. Last year was my ten year reunion but I didn't go for two reasons. One was that tickets were $65 a person, so my girlfriend and I would have cost $135 for dried up tri-tip and a cheesy band. Two the people that I keep in contact with since school was over are Tom and my cousin Keith. I really had no desire to see anyone else.

Yesterday I was at a family function (Oktoberfest) and Keith was there. He got a call from an old friend who was in town for his ten year high school reunion. He came by for a bit and we caught up on old times and said he would give us a call when the reunion was over. Keith had to run some errands to kill some time, so I decided to help him.

Keith got a call around 9:30 or so from Jeff (our friend) and he was still at the reunion drunk off his ass and needed a sober driver. He also needed help as this one chick and her sister were all over him and he needed to be saved. That and a few of Keith and I's friends, who lived out of state now, wanted to see us. So I follow Keith over there and we get to the parking lot and Jeff is outside. We go inside and see another old friend of ours, Ben, who wants to buy us shots. He gets tequilla from the bar, and it is the cheapest shit I have ever had. It wasn't his fault, but the reunion was at a country club so you think they would have better alcohol. Just then the chick mentioned earlier comes up to Keith, and as I see her turn sideways to me I noticed she had gotten new breasts (she had boy boobs in HS). She starts yelling at Keith to get her sister so they could leave. I had no idea what the fuck this was about and just wished I had more alcohol.

Keith comes back after a minute and says lets go outside to find Jeff. As we head to the smoking area, this girl in a black dress starts flirting with Keith and follows us out there. Of course I told him to give me the sign if he wants me to leave. So we get outside and see Jeff, but he's talking to the guy who bought us booze, and his wife. So we are talking with this chick and she is flirting with Keith and I'm keeping quiet, when she asks his name. He tells her and she says "No way, I live next door to you!" I start cracking up cause Keith can't figure out what the hell is going on, when she explains that she lives in the house south of his parents. She told him her name and we were both shocked as she was fugly in HS, but looked damn good now. So they talked a bit more and she went back inside.

We then wandered over to where Jeff was at and these two girls start talking to us. One is talking to Keith and the other is talking to me. She asks me my name and of course I had no desire to say I graduated a year before, so I said my name was Alexander Sullivan. She introduces herself and she said she was class president, blah blah blah. Of course I had no fucking clue who she was and I told her I was into drugs heavy in high school and didn't remember much. I was clean now and was good. She bought it until Keith said to the girl he was talking to "Oh that's my cousin Mike." I tried to weasel out of this, but they found me out. Thankfully they were too drunk to really care, but still was funny as shit.

Not much really happened after that, I convinced someone I was a director for porn movies so hopefully that rumor got passed around. Another thing that cracked me us is I saw a friend there who graduated two years after me. Keith said he saw him at our's last year and we came to the conclusion that he is a reunion crasher (we had an excuse, we picked up a friend).

I was amazed at how many people looked the same, and more amazed they acted the same. Half didn't recongize me (probably helped witht he fake alias). I remember one chick came up to Keith and started talking to him. I remembered her, but apparently she didn't me. Keith reintroduced me, but she didn't remember. As she was leaving she hugged Keith and then said to me "It was nice seeing you again even though I really don't remember you." The asshole in me said "Don't worry I don't remember you already." It made me laugh as she was really cute back in the day but really let herself go.

Everyone was leaving and heading out to a bar called Casey's. I had no desire to go, but went anyways. Once there I was bored out of my mind and remembered the only reason to go to a bar was to get laid. It was loud and obnoxious in there and I commentated to Keith about how many extra-marital affairs were going to occur tonight. 1:30 hit and I decided to leave, it was so loud in there that I couldn't hear Keith or Jeff talk. So I said my goodbyes and took off.

I can't wait until their twenty year reunion occurs so Keith and I can crash that one as well.

Ghostly Ranch

The lobby at Sierra Sky Ranch



Did an investigation of sorts last night, but wasn't the typical type. One member of my group is teaching a intro to the paranormal class at the Adult Ed. school in Fresno and part of the course is to go to an actual haunted location and put to pratice what they learned in class. Since the class had twenty students, the rest of the group was needed to make sure everyone followed the rules and lend any advice if needed.

The place is called Sierra Sky Ranch and it's up above Oakhurst. The history of the place begins in the 1850's as a cattle ranch. During the 1940's it was a TB sanatirium. From this period it seems where most of the ghosts came from. There is a nurse up in the loft, two men in the kitchen (one was a cook there), and another in the honeymoon suite.

I left home around 3:30 and drove an hour or so up into the mountain where the place is at. I told Jackie (the person teaching)that I would meet her around 4:30 or so, that way we could do a daylight walkthrough. I had been at the place before, but that was at night and since I was leading a group I needed to know the lay of the land, so to speak. After that the group then met to discus the night and assign groups. We decided not to do the loft above the lobby (even though it's a hotspot), as one person would not be able to go up there and we felt it wasn't fair to exclude just one person.

We met for dinner around 7:00, and most of the class was there. I chatted with a few and was trying to get a read off them. I was impressed with everyone's knowledge, and attested it to their teacher. Dinner was good, I had a rib eye (they had no fillet damnit) and it was good, had a good spice to it. Mashed potatoes were ok, they were called garlic but I couldn't taste it. Green beans were different, they had a sweetness to them. I think it came from the carmelized onion. I wanted to have the deep fried cheesecake, but had no stomach room so I had to decline. We are going back in November so I will order that first.

Around 9;00 the entire group met in the library. I need to backtrack for a second. The entire place has free WiFi and I was playing Guild Wars most of my free time. Makes me want broadband any more. But back to the meeting, Jackie was going over the rules of everything and introducing the class to the rest of the group. There were four groups and each one of us was paired off with one. I introudced myself and we headed outside waiting for the restaurant to close up.

We started at the back of the building and I just let the group wander around and take pictures. We did this for about twenty minutes or so and not much happened so we headed back to the library. Rested a bit then headed out to the front but not much happened there. I decided to do the lobby and the rooms that were open. Since that was near the library I fired up Guild Wars and let the group do there thing. After a bit I went to the lobby were they were and we decided to head to the kitchen since it was now closed. That's when the fun began.

We get in the kitchen and one of the members says someone grabbed their ass. They were all feeling a negative presense, for what it was worth. But then something crazy happened. One of them had their camcorder hanging from their neck and pointed downwards. The battery flies off and moves up and arcs down. There was no way for the locking device to have failed, even so the battery would have just fallen. Not much really happened after that, some had some weird sensations but I chock that up to nerves.

One final incident did happen. I was in the room of the group and one member was telling me a story. Right then a duffel bag on the bag fell over like it was pushed. I thought maybe it was just gravity, but the bag was light and it had moved as if something was pushed.

After that I returned to the library were everyone met to discuss what happened. Everyone had a good time which is always good, and I think this was more interesting then Andleberry as we actually had several incidents with different groups. Luckily CCPI itself is going back on November 4th to conduct a private investigation. I can't wait.